Let's try to not go shopping this year so those retail workers can also have a happy thanksgiving.
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
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#122I am thankful for this community helping largely stay off normal news sources and providing me with healthy discussion to jog my brain in some long ass Austrian lockdowns.
Thanks everyone & HN staff
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#123As an Immigrant to the USA, I did not get the whole thanksgiving thing. But then as I had a kid there, I warmed up to it. Then now I've been living abroad for almost 10 years without returning home to the USA and if I did not see this post I would not even have remembered. It's strange how we can so quickly adjust to holidays from different countries in just a few years -- while forgetting the ones back home so easil…
I can relate as I am an immigrant as well. I do not know if it is me getting older or the fact this year was especially eventful ( new title, first baby ), but, despite all the stuff going on in the world today, I feel especially thankful.
It is funny, because only few years ago I was more cynical about it and reduced all holidays to the 'feast' part.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's definitely one of the only places on the internet where you can ask a question or insult something, and have either the creator or most renown SME pop out of nowhere to explain everything. Never seen anything quite like it in any other field of interest I have.
SME = subject matter expert? Please spell out your abbreviations for those of us who are not familiar :)
They're talking about the most renowned execs at Sony Music Entertainment obviously..
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#125I’m from another culture and this is a FIRST thanksgiving for me :) This place has been not only enjoyable and absolutely blowing away for me because of all the great people who participated in key events for our industry and provided first hand perspective on something I only remotely heard of before. But the warm inclusive accepting and encouraging atmosphere here is totally something else on the internets nowadays…
I'll also be thankful for the book's name
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#126Thinking about all the folks on call for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush. They were some of my favorite days working in e-commerce but, then again, everything always went smoothly during my tenure. Thanks for holding down the fort for the rest of us!
Was up at 1:30am fixing that blocker in production last night. Never a dull moment!
Aw, what was it? (Roughly)
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#127Thank you Dan Gackle for making this site my happy place, the only place on the internet that I read every day. Thank you all for posting and upvoting the interesting stories. Thank you for replying to my comments. Thank you for upvoting them. Thank you for downvoting them, too. I come here to learn and be amazed at knowledge, creativity, and kindness.
Definitely, thanks dang!
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#128Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans!
Why the downvote? Not everybody here is from US.
Can’t say I agree with the downvote. Nevertheless, even though Thanksgiving is a US holiday, the spirit of Thanksgiving is to invite and include everyone. You don’t have to be a US citizen to celebrate Thanksgiving.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is Christian in origin, albeit a minor local Christian tradition (developed in the US) rather than a major near-universal one. Like many Christian traditions, it has been secularised, just as Christmas has been. I think the big difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas, is the Christian origins of the later are much harder to forget. That’s why relatively few Jews (for example) are willing to celebrate Christm…
interesting. So its an American Settler Christian event thats been, as usual typically watered down for the mass marketability. We dont have it here in Australia (except apparently on a small island off to the side of the mainland). We don't really have any sort of festival or celebration that is comparable.
I think the equivalent for the majority of Australians really is Christmas. Americans tend to see extended family on Thanksgiving, whereas Christmas (for those who observe it) tends to be a smaller affair more likely to be spent with immediate family only. By contrast, Australians are much more likely to see extended family at Christmas. Also, our traditional equivalent to the Black Friday sales is the Boxing Day sales, which is another way in which Australian Christmas = American Thanksgiving. Very many secular Australians celebrate Christmas in a completely secular way, with no religious component.
Of course it is not entirely equivalent, in that Thanksgiving is a more religiously inclusive holiday than Christmas is. While there are people with a religious objection to both, there are many more with a religious objection to the later but not the former.
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